Legendary filmmaker Mrinal Sen passes away at 95, cremation on Jan 2

Kolkata : Dadasaheb Phalke award-winning film director Mrinal Sen, the last of the triumvirate of directing icons, including Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, passed away on Sunday. He was 95. Sen took his last breath at his residence at 10.30 am after a prolonged battle with age-related ailments, family […]

Win proves I stood for right: Bigg Boss winner Dipika Kakar

Lonavala :  Popular TV actor Dipika Kakar, who lifted the trophy for “Bigg Boss 12”, said her win proved that she stood for the right and never played dirty. Social media polls and those conducted by various media houses had predicted that the “Sasural Simar Ka” fame actor would […]

Kader Khan hospitalised

Mumbai :  Veteran actor Kader Khan’s son Sarfaraz has said that his father has been admitted to a hospital in Canada, dismissing media reports of his demise. “It is all a lie. It (is) just a rumour. My father is in the hospital,” Sarfaraz told PTI. The 81-year-old actor […]

HC pulls up CBI, Maha govt for ignoring orders in Agnelo Valdaris custodial death case

Mumbai :  The Bombay High Court has come down heavily on the Maharashtra government and the CBI over their “failure” to implement a list of orders passed by several benches of the court in the 2014 case of sexual assault and alleged custodial death of Agnelo Valdaris. In an […]

HC declines to stay implementation of TRAI regulations for TV services

Chennai : The Madras High Court Friday declined to stay implementation of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s March, 2017 regulations and tariff order relating to fixation of charges for free and pay channels. Rejecting the interim prayer plea in a petition filed by a cable TV association, Justice […]

HC seeks Centre’s reply on plea of visually impaired man who lost out on Railway job

New Delhi :  The Delhi High Court has sought the Centre’s response on a visually impaired man’s plea that he be appointed on a group D railway post he has qualified for but could not join as sufficient opportunity was not given to him to get his documents verified. […]

Ensure Gandhi Maidan parking lot in Chandni Chowk by Sep 2020: Delhi HC to municipal body

New Delhi :  The Delhi High Court has directed the North Delhi Municipal Corporation to ensure completion of a parking lot at Gandhi Maidan in crowded Chandni Chowk area of the walled city by September 2020. A bench of justices S Muralidhar and Sanjeev Narula directed the fire department, […]

PM lays foundation stone of 50 MW LNG-based power project in Andaman

New Delhi/Port Blair : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday laid the foundation stone of 50 MW LNG-based power project at Hope Town in South Andaman, the Power Ministry said. The PM also inaugurated two projects on clean cooking and electric mobility in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the ministry […]

Chidambaram takes dig at Govt, ED, media on Chopper case claims in court

New Delhi :  Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Sunday took a dig at the Modi government, ED and the media over the “new improved system” of trying cases and pronouncing judgment without evidence, which he said “surpasses kangaroo courts”. In a series of tweets, the former finance and home […]

Ghosn’s detention extended to Jan 11: media

Tokyo :  Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be spending the beginning of 2019 behind bars after a Tokyo court on Monday extended his detention through to January 11, local media reported. The decision, reported by public broadcaster NHK and local news agency Jiji Press, comes after Japanese prosecutors […]

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